The multi-media artist, Tania Tamara Lawson, originally from Zimbabwe, has lived in Ilkley for over thirty years. She studied art at undergraduate and post-graduate level in Britain, including the study of textiles at undergraduate level at Warwick University as a mature student, where she gained a distinction. Tania has previously…
Past Shipley Artists’, describes and illustrates the lives and artwork of eighteen past professional artists from the Shipley and Saltaire areas of West Yorkshire, including sculptors, designers, illustrators, and art teachers. The eighteen featured artists are as follows: Section 1: Artists born in the Shipley area: Joseph H. Cawthra, Jack…
The oil painting, ‘Study of Mrs. M. Fisher Prout‘ by Louise Pickard, is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums & Galleries and in 2026 was on display at the Cliffe Castle Museum and Gallery, Keighley. The mood struck is one of light and colour, but with the paint…
Edward Gregory (1881-1955) was born in Edinburgh, one of nine children to father, James, a Minister of the Congregational Church, and mother, Martha. By 1901 the family were living at Oak Villas, Bradford. Both parents, James and Martha, had been born respectively in the Bradford and Craven areas, and…
The portrait, ‘Old Lady’, by Edward Gregory was painted around 1911 and is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries and was on display at Cliffe Castle, Keighley, in 2026. It is a portrait of an unknown woman who appears, from her clothing, to be from an…
